News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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2020
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Law and Digital Society: Re-imagining the futures – annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Lund, Sweden: call for papers
Witch-branding and the Law in Jharkhand: Two-day workshop, Ranchi, India
Writing Nomos Otherwise? Appropriation in the Anthropocene, London
Book Launch: Fucking Law, by Victoria Brooks, London
SDGS, Biodiversity and Plant Health: International legal aspects, Moscow
Solidarity in the Context of Natural Management Resources, Catania, Italy: call for papers
The Rule of Law in Modern Britain: A core principle or compromised ideal, Liverpool: call for papers
Rule of Law in Brazil: One year of Bolsonaro government, London
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
SLS-JAC-SLSA Workshop on Judicial Appointments: ‘Academics as Judges’, Coventry
SLSA Annual Conference 2020, Portsmouth
The Perennial Problem of Disclosure – A way forward?, Bristol
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples, London
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance, Gothenburg, Sweden
SLSA Postgraduate Conference, Cardiff – January 2020 (dates tbc)
2020
January
CSLS Seminar Series: Jurist in Context: William Twining in Conversation
Date: 27 January 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see flyer for full details of all CSLS seminars.
Knowledge Frontiers Symposium: Natures, cultures and communities
Dates: 30 January–1 February 2020
Venue: Dublin
Organised by the British Academy in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy. Please see flyer for details.
Socio-Legal Discussion Group: Law and experience – a socio-legal perspective on German asylum adjudication
Date: 30 Janaury 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see flyer for full details of all SLDG events.
The Futures of Legal Education and Practice Annual Conference 2020
Date: 31 January 2020
Venue: Open Univeristy Law School, Milton Keynes
See website for details.
February
Writing Nomos Otherwise? Appropriation in the Anthropocene
Date: 3 February 2020
Venue: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, London
This is a free Westminster Law and Theory Lab event. Please see website for details.
Sir Richard Arnold, Westminster Law School Annual Lecture
Date: 4 February 2019
Venue: Westminster Law School, London
Please see website for details of this free event.
Workshop and Q&A: KPMG LegalTech on emerging legal career paths and realising your technical potential
Date: 5 February 2020
Venue: Queen Mary University of London
Please see website to register for this free event.
Environmental Racism in the United States
Date: 6 February 2020
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details.
Addressing Historic Injustice in Russia: The cases of the children of political repression victims
Date: 6 February 2020
Venue: Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
See website for details of this free Transnational Law Institute event.
Frank Dawtry Annual Memorial Lecture 2020: Paul Wiles
Date: 11 February 2020
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
Rule of Law in Brazil: One year of Bolsonaro government
Date: 11 February 2020
Venue: Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.
Please see website for details of this free Transnational Law Institute event.
Book Launch: Fucking Law, by Victoria Brooks
Date: 13 February 2020
Venue: Resistance Gallery, Bethnal Green, London
Supported by the Resistance Gallery and the Centre for Law, Gender, Race and Sexuality at Westminster Law School. Please see website for details of this free event.
Approach to Law and Legal Method: Speaker series 2 – Ruth Dukes
Date: 13 February 2020
Venue: Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury
Theme: 'Socio-Legal Methods in Labour Law: Then and Now’
Organised by Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Kent Law School. See flyer for details.
Socio-Legal Discussion Group: Transitioning from QUAL to mixed methods
Date: 13 February 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see flyer for full details of all SLDG events.
Witch-branding and the Law in Jharkhand: Two-day workshop
Dates: 13–14 February 2020
Venue: National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi, India
Please see flyer for full details.
CSLS Seminar Series: Looking for Law in China: Empirical Research in an Authoritarian Context
Date: 24 February 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see flyer for full details of all CSLS seminars.
‘What is a War Crime? Identifying priorities for prosecution in international law’
Date: 25 February 2020
Venue: Centre for Law, Democracy and Society, Queen Mary University of London
Speakers include: Professor Tuba Inal, Dr Daniela Nadj, Dr Samir Puri, Dr Nicola Palmer and Dr Leila Ullrich
This event will discuss priorities for war crimes prosecutions. Questions to be discussed include whether the international community should be responsible for making these decisions as well as what part in the prosecution process local communities and victims should play. To save your seat, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Socio-Legal Discussion Group: Constitution-making in a post-conflict environment: a socio-legal perspective of the Libyan process
Date: 27 February 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see flyer for full details of all SLDG events.
March
CSLS Seminar Series: The poodle problem: are corporate lawyers still professionals?
Date: 2 March 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see flyer for full details of all CSLS seminars.
Socio-Legal Discussion Group: From voluntary to forced migration: a socio-legal overview of Syrian labour in Lebanon
Date: 5 March 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see flyer for full details of all SLDG events.
Approach to Law and Legal Method: Speaker series 3 – Simon Deakin
Date: 5 March 2020
Venue: Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury
Theme: ‘The Use of Quantitative Method in Labour Law’
Organised by Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Kent Law School. See flyer for details.
JUSTICE Student Conference 2020
Date: 7 March 2020
Venue: The International Dispute Resolution Centre, London
See website for details
CSLS Seminar Series: The art of justice: reconfiguring the courtroom object
Date: 9 March 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see flyer for full details of all CSLS seminars.
Lawyers in Society: A celebration of the work of Philip Lewis and his legacy
Date: 10 March 2020
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
Please see website for details. This event is organised by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
Socio-Legal Discussion Group: Title to be confirmed
Date: 12 March 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see flyer for full details of all SLDG events.
SLS-JAC-SLSA Workshop on Judicial Appointments: ‘Academics as Judges’
Date: 21 March 2020
Venue: Coventry University
This event is organised jointly by the SLSA, the Society for Legal Scholars and the Judicial Appointments Commission. Please see website for details. Places are limited so early booking is advised.
Approach to Law and Legal Method: Speaker series 4 – Ambreena Manji
Venue: Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury
Theme: ‘Searching for Social Reproduction in African Social History’
Organised by Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Kent Law School. See flyer for details.
Crime Justice and Social Harms
Dates: 31 March–1 April 2020
Venue: Keble College, Oxford
Organised by the Howard League for Penal Reform. Please see attachment and website for details.
April
SLSA Annual Conference 2020
Dates: 1–3 April 2020
Venue: University of Portsmouth
See website for details.
Workshop on Critical Perspectives on Land Registration: call for papers
Date: 6 April 2020
Venue: Birkbeck Univeristy of London
See website for details. Closing date: 1 March 2020.
Association of Law Teachers Conference 2020: call for papers
Dates: 6–7 April 2020
Venue: Stirling Court Hotel, Stirling University
Please see website for details. Call closes: 7 February 2020. Booking is now open.
SDGS, Biodiversity and Plant Health: International legal aspects: call for papers
Dates: 10–11 April 2020
Venue: RUDN University, Moscow
Please see flyer for details. Call closes: 20 February 2020.
Modern Studies in Property Law 2020
Dates: 15–17 April 2020
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Please see website for further details.
IALS/CHULS One-day Workshop: Academic career development in the law school
Date: 21 April 2020
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
The Rule of Law in Modern Britain: A core principle or compromised ideal: call for papers
Dates: 23 April 2020
Venue: Liverpool John Moores University
Please see announcement for details. Call closes: 28 February 2020.
Solidarity in the Context of Natural Management Resources: call for papers
Dates: 23–24 April 2020
Venue: University of Catania, Italy
See flyer for details. Call closes: 14 February 2020.
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance
Dates: 23–25 April 2020
Venue: Konstepidemin Arts Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
Please see website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Technologies of Registration Workshop
Date: 24 April 2020
Venue: Centre for Health, Law and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Please see flyer for details.
May
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses and Natural Resources Governance: A study in global law, development and justice: call for papers
Dates: 5–6 May 2020
Venue: Centre for Human Rights and Public Law, Cardiff University
Please see flyer for full details. Closing date: 30 January 2020.
Supporting Law Students in 2020 and Beyond: Exploring the why, what and how: call for papers
Date: 21 May 2020
Venue: Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University
Please see announcement for details. Deadline extended to 24 January 2020.
Voices of Change: Presents, pasts and futures of activism and protest in Europe
Dates: 21–22 May 2020
Venue: University of Birmingham
Please see announcement for details. A limited number of bursaries are available.
Law and Society Association: Graduate and early career workshop
Dates: 26–27 May 2020
Venue: Denver Colorado, USA
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 28–31 May 2020
Venue: Denver, Colorado, USA
Please see website for details. Early bird registration is now open.
June
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples
Date: 11–12 June 2020
Venue: City, University of London
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA Seminar Competition event.
Impact and Wellbeing: call for papers
Dates: 19–20 June 2020
Venue: Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
Please see flyer and submission form for details. Closing date: 6 February 2020.
Stigmatization, Identities and the Law: Asian and comparative perspectives
Dates: 23–24 June 2020
Venue: Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Please see attachment for details.
Feminism, Law and Citizenship
Dates: 24–26 June 2020
Venue: University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris
Please see flyer for details.
WG Hart Workshop 2020: New Perspectives on Jurisdiction and the Criminal Law
Dates: 29–30 June 2020
Venue: tbc
Further details to be announced in due course.
Genocide and Law: Communicating through visual arts and language: call for papers
Dates: 26–28 June 2020
Venue: Poznan, Poland
This is the 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law and the 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics. Please see flyer for details. Call closes: 28 February 2020.
July
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2020
Date: 3 July 2020
Venue: University of Southampton
Please see attachment for details.
SOGICA Final Conference: call for submissions
Dates: 7–8 July 2020
Venue: University of Sussex, Falmer Campus, Brighton
Please see website for details of this event organised by the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum Project. Closing date: 22 January 2020.
Gender Dimensions of Violence Prevention, Mona Jamaica
Date: 15 July 2020
Venue: University of the West Indes, Mona Law Campus, Jamaica
Seminar Convenors: Dr Ramona Biholar (Faculty of Law) and Dr Dacia Leslie (SALISES)
Please see attachment for call for chapter contributions for a peer-reviewed edited collection arising from this event.
August
Law and Digital Society: Re-imagining the futures – annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Lund, Sweden: call for papers
Dates: 24–25 August 2020
Venue: Lund University, Sweden
Please see website for details. Call closes: 15 March 2020.
September
Critical Legal Conference 2020: call for streams
Dates: 3–5 September 2020
Venue: University of Dundee
Please see website for details. Call closes: 29 February 2020.
University Association for Contemporary European Studies Conference: Health in Europe Panel
Dates: 6–9 September 2019
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Please see announcement for further details.
November
British Crime Historians Symposium: call for papers
Dates: 2–4 September 2020
Venue: Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds
See announcement and website for details. Call closes: 8 April 2020.
2021
January
SLSA Postgraduate Conference
Dates: January 2020 (dates tbc)
Venue: Cardiff University.
Details to be confirmed in due course.
Oñati Institute Workshops: call for applications
Applications are invited from interested parties to organise workshops on topics within the broad field of law in society. Please see website for details. Closing date: 7 February 2020.